The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word BUSINESSES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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What does BUSINESSES mean?
BUSINESSES noun- A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
- A person's occupation, work, or trade.
- Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
- The volume or amount of commercial trade.
- One's dealings; patronage.
- Private commercial interests taken collectively.
- The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
- A particular situation or activity.
- Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
- Something involving one personally.
- (parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
- (travel) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
- Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
- The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
- Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees")
- Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.